it was a big issue. the week's top stories and today's news to egypt's opposition calls for more protests now as president morsi refuses to scrap the referendum on the new islamist based constitution we've got the latest tonight. rebels in syria come together on the one military command now meantime more global calls to prevent the government from using chemical weapons or increasingly see as a pretext for intervention. and how massive to see palestinians liberated as the militant group marks twenty five years in action while israel faces global pressure to stop building more settlements.

hello and welcome if you just joined us this is r.t. it's now eight pm here in moscow my name's kevin know it first egypt's opposition is calling for more protests tonight after president morsi insisted on plowing ahead with a referendum on the new constitution which is viewed by many as discriminatory even his decision to scrap the decree which had granted him always absolute power was dismissed as a play on words journalist well true in cairo for us says is an expected you turn has failed to ease tensions. it does come as a bit of a surprise at the moment as people were really thinking the president wouldn't move on his stance against the opposition forces demands yesterday saturday they had a meeting which was dubbed the national dialogue meeting between political party leaders the president and his cabinet notably some of the key opposition forces that for the national salvation front that are behind the protests and sit ins in the last few weeks cannot present the results of the controversial decoration would

be revoked which of course is president morsi sweeping powers which is part of one of the demands of the opposition forces and widely seen as a good move however they are rendered on the constitution which the opposition forces see to be illegitimate as it was drafted by islamist. constituent somebody would go ahead on the fifteenth and this is by the problem lies the opposition forces i replied yesterday saying that the results of the meeting were meaningless as the president doesn't seem to move forward with that demand against this referendum. that it was really just another form of deception this comes off the minute she stepped up security around the presidential palace in the last two days they used to statement yesterday saying that they were calling for dialogue and this was the only way to get the nation out of its crisis implying that perhaps they were willing to take a role in the ongoing situation in egypt we've seen quite a lot of violence on the streets since this one second of november when the

conscious of the decree was announced by the president as rival groups have mats and clashed which is led to the deaths of at least seven people on wednesday we have yet to see really what will happen in the in the coming future the president keeps by this referendum and i'm sure that the opposition forces won't move to really even though we had this development yesterday at this meeting they're still looking at a divided egypt's political deadlock. well true the latest there will middle east history professor lawrence davidson told us there's no chance morsi will cancel the referendum and that without dialogue situation my spiral into civil war if there was later the vote goes either he or she was forces in a constitution passed. and i think the opposition knows that he can do that there are four words they want to stop that but i do want to go through tears there is a leadership that was once here is that they want to start the process all over

again with zero so actually they want a new election only one a new parliament and the new constituent assembly and a new constitution so what are you going to do if you are trying to kick them out of power if you try to change the match. you release a civil war you risk we're going the islamist into the streets as long as population in general. i don't think last year or. so worries are very very dangerous which shouldn't judge the islands which she outdo you. because what's on the books the medieval morsi is willing to make some concessions right you're going to have to talk or to get out and just or so it's not work lawrence davidson syria's rebels have joined forces on the one military command which they hope will

unite diverse groups in the western backed struggle against president assad this week the international community again voiced fears that the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition fighters something damascus still denies the teacher can assess is whether the chemical arsenal is a real threat than or just a pretext for intervention. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a unmistakable message that this would cross a red line next how does america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plain sight seeing secret intelligence for fox

news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we feel there's a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries they're doing creasing pressure on syria the syrian government sure knows that if they used chemical weapons it would give nato and some of their arab neighbors who are itching to intervene in syria the green light to go ahead with their plans america's itself says it would be suicidal for them to do so but with the fear and the hype building up over the use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria it seems the u.s. might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost twenty years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have an descriptions of biological weapons factories on

wheels and on rails in beijing triggered a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and here is later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion to the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction or came from tony blair to the bush and congress are right now that the u.s. has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. a credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to.

take action if that eventuality were to occur to american warships are already near the syrian coast with some. thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syria's borders is a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming theater ballistic missiles or occur if the syrians are not going to attack the turks the church of the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced

in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they seriously considering that kind of a mess of intervention because that could mean another you rock coming soon and the invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm going to check on. well lawrence wilkerson the former chief of staff to seconds you state colin powell says the u.s. could very well be preparing for a ground invasion. why in the world would we put patriot batteries on the turkish border ostensibly to protect turkey with a large just army and the most powerful army in the region indeed one of the most powerful in the world turkey major no protection by us from that sort of thing and it would be utterly. utterly stupid for assad to attack turkey in that way so why are we doing these things that look like they aren't connected to reality unless

reality is we're preparing the ground to intervene in syria i think also that it would be again a backdoor as a war into iran which is the as you well know the real threat that we've been putting out there for years now and i think we're looking at syria and iran being a combination that we would then take on i think you're looking at a confrontation that's going to take at least a decade to settle and there are going to be too many victors at the end of that decade just losers. britain is heading towards five more years almost and it's the treasury chief insists that cutbacks will help the country struggling economy i've got to say also if the break to promise pledge is to liberate palestinian lands inch by inch no they saying israel refuses to abandon its settlements.

a forty nine year old southern california man was thrown in president charles with possessing materials to make an explosive device all because of his rather unusual wristwatch despite the bomb squad saying that his watch was not a weapon here made it custody for twenty four hours and was charged with the crime anyways a spokesman for the el meter county sheriff's department said that the man's watch had all the components to make an improvised explosive device. minus the explosive material you know having a lighter in your pocket is also everything you need to set off explosion minus the gunpowder but before we make a victim out of this watch where i have to point out one thing the watch she was wearing was designed to look like some sort of bomb with fuses and wires and switches so who's more idiotic someone who wears a device that looks like a bomb on an airplane or a government who can fix someone for having the components of a bomb without that bit of the bomb that makes

a blow up i'd say both are pretty dumb but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from world from the streets of canada. change corporations rule the day. well with the. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

your watch and we can use if you hear r.t. with me kevin i win tonight britain's heading into the future hand in hand with austerity with the government now extending its massive cuts program for five more years that's in addition to the already existing cuts in public spending pensions are going to be rated even more with those on welfare suffering as well as the sarah for three ports. well everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and while was there a lot at stake is one thing but it was very very clear and so the u.k. is set to face even more austerity no what those figures showed us was that the u.k. economy is going to shrink by not point one percent in five years twenty twelve now

it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of that all importing in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up we think that the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think is probably the fact as a government have missed the reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program this game so it's right the way three twenty eighteen say pretty gloomy out and this is what we were expecting but of course that's going to really not be what millions of families all across the cave again to one thing here and of course this is really going to affect bearing in real terms to speak to us more about this autumn statement by the chancellor today i'm joined by a labor m.p. and the public i say they public health minister thank you for joining us so the british economy is slowly healing according to chancellor george osborne what was your reaction to that well i thought that was a very silly statement the truth is every prophecy every target.

he has he has not met his targets he is not going to do with the deficit he said the road growth will grow and also there's going to be a huge cart made in benefits pavement to some of the poorest people in the country are going to suffer the most i was resolved to go through and there's no end to this will start in summer now i want to talk to you about that because we saw that just one percent for the benefit of the welfare bill and that's less than inflation you know that's really going to hit a huge no. support forty seven billion pounds so it will be cut from the budget but still we're talking about farmers is a really on the bread line anyway even losing twenty pounds a week is a big hit i mean it's a very cold day outside and it's a very cold prospects for britain's poor because they are going to bear the brunt

of the sturdy cool spy britain's back because of all school doesn't know what he's doing thank you very much for joining us that also saved us a lot of course the concern as he said there on picking through the things at the moment but one thing cutting through all those statistics and that's the u.k. is going to be said to have to praise it so they even talk to us in the future and even more starting. so first one of our team in the u.k. their guard says hamas leadership is valid to keep fighting until the israeli occupation is over as hundreds of thousands of supporters turned up to celebrate the militant group's twenty fifth anniversary how much political leader khaled mashal who runs the organization from qatar is now in gaza for the first time in four decades in a speech labeled as extremist by israel he refused to recognize the jewish state's legitimacy because of its occupation and that visit comes amid a turbulent time for the region israel's refused to ended settlement expansion which is being denounced by the international community to announce the building of those new settlers. after palestine was granted nonmember observer status at the un

british m.p. jeremy corbin in the week told me israel is risking isolation. netanyahu seems simply to have not cottoned on to the fact that the vast majority of the rest of the world support the right of palestine to exist support the right of palestinian recognition and therefore not of occupation of the west bank two state solution is something that everyone is wonderful signed up to but the reality on the ground of still not having complete free movement in and out and the huge number of settlements across the west bank on the settler roads and of course the problems of east jerusalem suggest that it's quite difficult to achieve it unless there's a real will to withdraw the settlements and allow palestine to develop and i don't see that will at all with netanyahu if he can't even rely on governments that are basically quite sympathetic to israel and israel's claims then he's losing out big

time all around the world and he just needs to wake up i think the washington support will weigh in very quickly obama has been reelected under reelected president into a second is that his most powerful and i think lesson you know who might do well to remember that he also very much involved in itself in the internal politics the usa during the election campaign in that current of india himself very much the administrator. the movement around the world for palestine for palestinian people is unprecedented netanyahu should wake up and recognize that. israel exports tons of fruit and vegetables cosmetics and other goods to the e.u. every year but despite being labeled as made in israel some of those don't exactly originate from the deed many have produced in settlements considered illegal under international law and now the recourse to ban these exports or at least in force more accurate labeling people all over investigates. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm

is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims e.u. imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in illegal settlements your see farms this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. i was told here you can. see where i was told they could if tomorrow the state of israel tells me it's time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i go to i was nothing if you see.

this. in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from this is are you sure this comes from spain. is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even the few things they get jordan they really checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days and. and then you can even more those behind the reporting to trade between the settlements in europe say they

aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel is over we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be watched by european citizens as much the course the short and second of products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not buy. our t. belin. those stories online today than got time to show you here right now there's international rollover some reporting about it with a warning of a nuclear aggression this time it's around son in law against the united states over atomic tests in the volga with washington accused of double standards and snubbing the u.n. nuclear watchdog interesting rates online from us and what about this what we got here well is the new miss avies benedict the sixteenth the pope's taken delivery of his new high tech eco friendly wheels. including a throne for comfortable cruising among the crowd.

in spain thousands of medical workers have marched on the streets of madrid to protest against crippling cuts they're also angry plans to privatise part of a national health service many spaniards are for straight to the banks are getting financial aid instead of the people here and so it's approved a forty billion euro rescue package for the country's beleaguered lenders now it's the first tranche of the bailout agreed back in june dutch politician twelve month has told me the government bought the crisis on itself. there is a fundamental flaw in the banking system which is so the government has basically taken over the banks the greed of the banking cartel degree of a central bank they allow banks to print money that is not covered by anything the government intervene too much in the market. and the way to solve that problem by government withdrawing by printing the role of government by getting government to

spend less tax less and regulate less that is what will get chronic back in order and that's what will. cause john kerry to grow again a little here. so. failing companies being supported by government is only a very short term solution in the long term it is a disaster. hundreds of thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington residents across the land of sun internet petition saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore but important story. tonight. for two minor tears after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. the task of perfecting the art here you know moves forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by

campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from the so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent ones the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's through the lesson of history big empires always collapse on their own white secession supporters like bernard thirst some say washington's weight of growing debt and lists wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force is beyond reform you can't reform that federal

government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically is the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned they're corrupt and are out of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail in the south general. different country already in the united states we simply need our own government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in this you thousand a presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their

own us to the average american the things they believe in and they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. or signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be the interstate driving along at thirty five miles an hour by ourselves with the station as a goal now we're being passed on both sides and lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina port ny out r.t. . phyllis whalen president lugo chavez has spoken publicly for the first time about his successor after announcing he's suffering from cancer again the leaders to return to cuba of further treatment and surgery in the coming days during a speech from state t.v.

named vice president nicolas maduro now as his replacement should anything happen to him the news comes just two months after travis was reelected in the title for. more world headlines right now police a ruling party activists have clashed with armed protesters in the bank with the capital dhaka these two people being killed there nearly two hundred injured in the thirty's fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds just as blocked roads and torched vehicles demanded constitutional changes ahead of next year's election. north korea now saying it may to spoken its controversial rocket test that showed you later this month has given a reason for the delay but it's thought to be because of heavy snow around the launch site this included state insists it's only launching a satellite but the u.s. japan and south korea are among those who think it's really conducting a ballistic missile test tokyo is threatening to shoot down the rocket if it poses a threat. data stored on the internet in europe can be obtained by u.s. authorities despite e.u.

data protection laws that's according to dutch legal experts now issued a paper on cloud computing in it they can claim that the empty tera patrick act allows the us access to private data one of the authors of the report says international privacy laws need to be reviewed. normally in an offline world you would have cooperation between governments that would respect international human rights standards but as these companies in the cloud are. conducting systematic best business and united states direct access warms all over the world internet surveillance is increasing and it's quite breakneck speed so a solution would be. to at least try and come to some international standard of how to resolve all this and what does privacy mean i know that this is a very ambitious goal but as we all move into the internet and as we all as it all becomes a part of our daily lives free speech and privacy online is becoming ever more

important. the u.s. is about to get a taste of his own medicine from moscow is preparing a banned list of american officials in response to travel russians accused of breaching human rights we're talking about that just ahead also the come to explaining why china and india's dispute over all the oil and gas headed sea could backfire for both countries coming up very soon.